Waterproof composition



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

SYLVESTER HUFF, OF WVABASH, INDIANA.

WATERPROOF COMPOSITION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 483,451, datedSeptember 2'7, 1892.

Application filed June 11, 1891- Serial No. 395,846. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SYLvEsTER HUFF, of Wabash, in the county of Wabashand State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Waterproof Compositions; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as willenable others a skilled in the art to which it appertains to make anduse the same.

This invention relates to certain improvements in waterproofingcompounds or compositions.

The objectof the invention is to provide an improved waterproofcomposition or compound composed of asmall number of cheap,easily-obtained, and easily-handled ingredients, which can be veryeasily compounded and can be applied with the utmost ease and will forma surface impervious to water.

With these ends in view myinvention consists in certain novelcompositions comprising certain ingredients mixed in proportions aboutas stated and hereinafter fully set forth.

In carrying out my invention I mix one gallon of raw linseed-oil, eightounces of resin, four ounces of sugar of lead, and two ounces oflampblack. These ingredients are all combined and mixed in a suitablevessel and heated to the boiling'point or to any other degree of heatwhich is found suitable, and the compound is then applied while hot tothe surface to be waterproot'ed and forms a waterproofing-surfacepossessing many advantages and fully accomplishes its purposes.

It is evident that my invention is not limited to the exact proportionsherein stated.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim and desire tosecure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-- The herein-describedwaterproofing compound, composed of raw linseed-oil, one gallon;resin,eight ounces; sugar of lead, four ounces, and lampblack twoounces, mixed in about these proportions, substantially as de scribed.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I afl'lx my signaturein presence of two witnesses.

SYLVESTER IIUFF.

Witnesses:

JOHN H. DICKEN, BERTHA DICKEN.

